23, [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 11 cm.

Wrapper imprint: London : Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster-Row; and at Wellington, Salop

Probable date range based on publisher's years at address indicated in Osborne Coll. (p. 479)

"Price One Penny."

Frontispiece illustration signed "Lee"; attributed to the engraver John Lee

Frontispiece included in pagination

Frontispiece and last leaf pasted down to wrappers

In publisher's greyish brown printed wrappers; publisher's advertisements on lower wrapper (7 titles, ending with "Gleanings from natural history")

First sentence: "The cock doth crow to let you know, If you be wise, what time to rise."

Includes 13 woodcuts

Meriton, J. Small books for the common man

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